Ticketing machine



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TICKETING MACHINE Filed March 23, 1939 6 Sheets-Sheet 6 7 51'] Weber Patented Oct. 22, 1940 TICKETING MACHINE Carl E. Weber, Shilling-ton, Pa., assignor to Vanity Fair Silk Mills, Reading, Pa., a corporation of Pennsylvania Application March 23, 1939, Serial No. 263,811

10 Claims.

This invention applies to a typing machine such as an invoice typewriter or a bill-writing machine, and relates particularly to improvements in means to produce separate tickets for individual lines of 6 typing. The apparatus is to produce the separate tickets as the lines are typed, as an automatic operation, without interfering with the normal operation of the typewriter.

In use of this machine, a billing clerk typing 10 an invoice may obtain separate tickets for each separate item of the invoice. are useful in subsequent analysis of the items, such as studies of frequency with which various items are being used in given cases. 15 sirable for the clerk to type the line of invoice in usual manner but at any suitable place in the line to-advance ticket blanks for some selected distance so that subsequent tickets may be prepared. Preferably, the apparatus should pull 20 each individual ticket from under the typing space and automatically cut the ticket to a pre-selected size. This requires automatically spacing the successive tickets.

An object of this invention is to provide an 25 improved attachment to advance separable tickets in synchronism with the usual operations of a typewriter, either of a flat platen or flat surface type, or of the usual cylinder platen typewriter.

A further object of this invention is to as- 30 semble a ticketing attachment with typewriters which is operated electrically and automatically as the typewriter reaches a predetermined position in a line of typing. A further object is to provide a separable ticketing attachment for 35 typing machines, whichis adjustable as to length of ticket to be formed. It is a special object of this invention to-organize a ticketing attachment to operate automatically in conjunction with a cutting means to separate a ticket each 40 time a line has been typed on the ticket. A special object is to develop improved means which automatically advances and spaces a continuous ticket strip whether of extensive width or of narrow width. A particular object further isto form a 5 ticket adva'ncing mechanism which feeds aticket tape angularly across a space in which the usual writing paper is operating in-a typewriter. A further purpose is, by improved means, to prevent overrunning of a ticket strip through the 5 usual papers in a typewriting machine.

These and other objects will be apparent in a preferred embodiment of this invention, as described in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, and more fully pointed out in the ap- 55 pended claims.

Separate tickets It is de- In the drawings, like reference characters on the difierent figures refer to like parts of the ticketing assembly.

Figure 1 represents a plan view of a typing machine for billing invoices assembled with a ticket printing attachment in accordance with this invention;

Figure 2 represents a side elevation of the ticket printing and severing attachment, partly in section, taken along the line 2--2 of Figure l;

Figure 3 represents a rear' elevation of the ticketing attachment alone viewed from the'line 3-3 of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is a plan view .of the ticketing attachment alone showing electro-magnetic clutch connections, the figure being viewed partly through cut-away portions of a top plate;

Figure 5 is an end section of the ticketing attachment alone taken along the line 5-5 of Figure 3 and showing trip operating mechanism to release the electro-magnetic clutch, with cam mechanism to actuate a cutting shear for detach ing printed tickets; 7

Figure 6 is a detail section taken along the line 6-6 of Figure 5, showing the mounting of levers to control the clutch release;

Figure 7 is a plan view from the line 1-1 of Figure 3, showing a ticket-severing shear assembled with a cam actuation therefor;

Figure 8 is a diagrammatic representation of an electro-magnetic clutch control to drive the attachment, actuated by the typing carriage;

Figure 9 is a diagrammatic view representing an electric motor circuit for moving a strip of ticket blanks through typing position, as actuated through a carriage-return key on the typing machine;

Figure 10 is a plan of invoice which ordinarily is prepared on a typing machine; and

Figure 11 is a plan of tickets which under the 0 present invention are produced in conjunction with typing of the items illustrated on the invoice in Figure 10.

Figure 12 is a rear elevation of a modified form of machine comprising ticket strip reeling means; and

Figure 13 is a side elevation of this modified structure of this invention.

carriage to advance the ticket strip a predetermined distance. The feeding mechanism also functions to disengage the clutch after predetermined advance of the ticket strip, and may sever the ticket which' has thus been advanced out of the line of printing. Actuation of the clutch controlled feed mechanism preferably is combined with actuation of carriage return mechanismthrough the medium of a carriage return key on the invoice typing machine.

Referring more particularly to the preferred embodiment of this invention shown in the drawings, Figure 1 shows an invoice typing carriage I to move over a flat platen bed through which a strip of invoice tape 2 is designed to travel parallel with the travel of the typing machine. At right angles to the invoicing strip and under the invoicing paper is supported a strip of ticket paper 3 for movement into registry with the line of typing of the invoice. Such a strip 3 is drawn from a supply 4 at the rear of the attachment and is advanced over a front idler roller 5 to the lower part of the attachment. As shown in Figure 2, ticket strip 3 is drawn under the invoices 2 and then from guide roll 5 is pulled by a driven feed roll 6 with idlers 'I.- It is evident that ticket strip 3 may be of multiple nature so that a plurality of ticket carbons can be produced simultaneously.

The driven roll 6 is rotated by a geared wheel 9 mounted on the same shaft as the roll and driven through spur gear in by motor Ii. This driving arrangement for the ticket strip is illustrated in Figure 3 in general rear view.

Figure 3 shows at the top of the attachment.

an electro-magnetic means to engage a clutch connection between the motor II and driving spur-gear Ill. The general arrangement of the electro-magnetic clutch is shown also in Figure 4 in plan view, as well as diagrammatically in Figure 8. From Figures 1 and 8, it is apparent that the carriage of machine I carries a switch tripping stud 12 which at some predetermined point in the travel of the machine I across the invoices for example at the end of a typing line, is designed to trip a switch l3 which energizes an electro-magnet l4. As seen from Figures 3 and 4, magnet I 4, with an horizontally movable arm I5, is positioned at the side of the ticket tape roll 6 under the top of the attachment. The arm I5 is designed to move to the right when the magnet is actuated and at its end carries a connecting screw attached so as to push a rod l6 to the right along the top of the ticketing attachment. The rod [6 carries at its right end a coil spring l8 which is attached to a pivoted downwardly extended arm l'l so as to move the arm to the right when magnet I4 is energized. -At its lower end, arm I1 rides within a pair of shoulders on a movable clutch element I9. Hence, clutch element I9 is yieldably .pulled to the right by spring I8 to engage a cooperating clutch element 20. Even though the clutch element 20 be rotating, the element 19 is moved into engagement by the pull of the spring I8. Clutch element 20 is driven through a worm gear 2| by motor ll. Mounted coaxially to shift with mo'vable clutch element I9 is spur gear I0, which always engages a larger driving gear 9. Ticket roller 6 is attached to the same shaft as gear 9. Thus, gear Sand roller 6 are rotated by motor II to draw a ticket strip through the attachment when mag- The latch 23 is pivotally mounted on top of the attachment and rides upon the bar i6 inoperatively when the clutch elements are separated. The free end of latch 23, how: ver, is continually pulled down by a coil spring 24, as shown in Figure 5, so that when slot 22 in rod I6 is moved under latch 23, the latch is pulled down into locking position.

However, when gear wheel 9 has advanced the ticket tape a sumcient distance, means are provided to release latch 23 to permit rod l6 to be returned to its left, or inactive, position by the pull of a coil spring 25, as shown in Figures 3 and 4. Thus rotation of the clutch causes release or disengagement thereof, and terminates motor rotation of the ticket roll.

Means for releasing'latch 23 are illustrated in Figure 5. These means comprise a downward bell crank extension 26 of latch 23 to project down beside driven gear wheel 9. From the side of gear wheel 9 project studs 21 which-in their travel impinge against the lever arm 26 and functions as a camming means to elevate latch 23. In the example shown, two studs 21 are mounted diametrically opposite each other on the side of gear 9. The number and positioning of these studs, however, regulates the length of ticket to be sheared oif at each operation; hence, these studs may be adjustable or variable in their number and positioning to obtain any desirable length of ticket. For example, if instead of two studs as shown, there were four equally spaced, each ticket would be half as long; while on the other hand, if there were only one stud each ticket would be twice as long.

Means cooperating with gear wheel 9 are provided to prevent over-running of the roll after the proper amount of ticket tape has been drawn through the machine. It will be observed that the depending trip arm 26, which is displaced by the camming action of studs 21 to elevate latch 23, is shown in Figure 6 mounted on a bolt 28 secured to a bracket 29 on top of the ticketing at the other end to an arm of a bracket 32 mounted at the top of the attachment. To serve as a stop for the forward movement of pawl arm 30, as shown in Figure 6, the bracket 32 is struck out as a tab 33 in front of the pawl arm 30;

In operation, after a stud 21 has slipped past. latch release 26, the stud impinges against the shoulder of pawl arm 30 and pushes the arm back. But tension on pawl arm 30 from spring 3| cushions the gear wheel 9'to a gradual stop. As the stud 21 slips past the end of pawl arm 30, the pawl arm snaps back, but is limited in its forward travel by the tab 33. Thus, after the typing carriage reaches its position for actuation of the clutch-control magnet,'not only is a suitable but undesirable unreeling from the ticket supply length of ticket drawn under the invoice sheets, I

is prevented by the brake mechanism which operates as soon as the driving clutch is released.

Additional means are provided in cooperation with this ticket advancing means to shear tickets of the length for which the release studs 2'! of the machine have been set. Such a cutting arrangement is positioned at the lower portion of the machine under the roll 6. The tape 3 drops downwardly from the roll 6 through a slot 34 in a shear plate 35, as shown in Figures 2 and 3, to be cutby a movable shear arm 8. This shear arm is controlled by a cam that is actuated from the roll driving gear 9 in such manner that normally the shear plate is held open, but at the proper moment is released for quick closing by a spring 36.

A preferred arrangement of this shear operating mechanism is illustrated in Figures 2, 5 and '7. The movable shear blade 8 is pivotally mounted in horizontal position under the bottom of the attachment as shown in the detailed view. Figure '7. A free arm 'of shear blade 8 extends beyond the supporting frame members of the ticketing attachment to a position beneath vertical feed gear 9. This shear blade extension carries at its upper side a small roller 31 which is freely mounted at the top of a pin 38 secured near the free end of blade 8. The roller 31 is normally held upwardly by a spring 39 compressed between the roller and the blade arm 8.

This smaller roller 31 in upward position idles against the peripheral face of a larger, horizontal cam roller 40. This horizontal cam roller 40 of larger diameter than the roller 31 is mounted for rotation on a vertical shaft, supported by an arm 4| that extends from the frame of the ticketing attachment. Rigidly attached to the larger cam roller 40 is a driving gear 42. This is actuated by a spur gear 43 on a lower extension of the shaft of the vertically disposed motor II, as illustrated in Figure 3.

Means are provided to move roller 31 down from the idling face of roller 40 to a plane at the under side of roller 40. For this purpose, there res upon small roller 31 a vertically disposed rod 44 which at its upper end extends along the side of driving gear '9 to engage a cam 45. Cam 45 is rigidly secured to the shaft upon which gear 9 rotates, as shown in Figures 3 and ,5. Cam 45 contains two arms positioned slightly in lagging position relative to time of coincidence of latch arm 26 with the latch releasing studs 21 that project from the side of gear 9.

Normally, the rod 44 is held in upward position by a compression coil spring 46 mounted between a cotter pin 48 in rod 44 and a guide arm 41. In this normal upward position, the rod 44 permits shear control roller 31 to rise to a position tangential to the rotating face of cam roller 40, as shown in Figurefi. Thus, shear blade 8 is arranged to idle in open position while the feed roller drive rotates and while the typewrit ing carriage operates.

The structure of cam roller' 40 is shown in Figure '7 to comprise a slot 49. This slot isformed in the bottom face of the roller 40 with-a circular enlargement near the center of the roller, of such size and at such position as to permit the small shear roller 31 to enter when their paths of travel coincide. This occurs when roller 31 is released. When this condition occurs, roller 31 is forced to enter this circular opening 49 because of the upward pressure of spring 39 and the lateral swing of the released shear blade 8 under the influence of shear sp ing 36. The slot in this lower face of roller 40 is undercut to permit travel therethrough of small roller 31 while supporting pin 38 projects through the smaller, narrowed opening of the slot. This pin 38 serves to transmit the motion of the roller 5 31 in the slot to the free arm of shear blade 8. This is an horizontal motion which is controlled by disposing the roller slot as a chord at some suitable angle of the large roller 40 outwardly to the roller face. Thus, roller 31 enters roller 1 40 near the center and as roller 40 rotates is caused to move outwardly, that is to say, horizontally, until the small roller 31 emerges again at the circumferential idling face of roller 40. Thuashear blade 8 is actuated in reciprocatory 1 horizontal motion, as roller 31 alternately enters central slot 49 and then emerges at the periphery of roller 40. This occurs when cam 45 on drive wheel 9 depresses small roller 31.

A modification of this invention is illustrated 2 in Figures 12 and 13 in which a reel is positioned to receive a ticket strip after typing. As shown, reel 50 is aligned with feeding rolls 6 and, 1 at the rear of the machine and extended across the machine. on the reel is a drive spindle. This 2 is rotated by a drive element 5| to wind ticket strips after typing. Drive element 5| is connected to the shaft of the feed roll 6 so that the two are synchronized. InFigure 13, ticket strip 3 is shown drawn around feed roll 6 downwardly for re-winding on reel 50; The strip 3 may be tion may be such that perfunctory lines need not 40 appear on the tickets, such, for example, as address or salutation. However, the typing carriage at a predetermined position, for example, at the end of a line, trips the switch that energizes magnetic control of a clutch to drive the 45 7 paper feed roll. This clutch is brought into engagement whether or ndt a moving member thereofwas being rotated ="at the time the magnetic control was energized. Means synchronous with or carried by the feed roller, particularly 50 the drive gear carried at the end of the feed roll, are effective at a predetermined distance of rotation of the paper feed roll to trip a clutch latch. Over-running of the paper feed is prevented.

As the printed strip emerges at the bottom for a distance preferably determined as suitable for a ticket, the emerging ticket is sheared from the strip, in the preferred embodiment of this invention. This'shearing means is correlated to the action of the paper feed drive by positioning a shear control cam slightly inleading positionto the clutch latch trip so that after the trip. has disengaged the paper drive, the horizontal shear blade is snapped by a spring across the, cutting line of the ticket strip. I'he shear blade then is opened by the drive motor which had previously operated the ticket strip drive as the motor, now released from the drive roll, rotates the cam that engages the end of the shear blade.

This forces the blade to open position, where it The motor may or may not continue to run 7 continuously. Effective operation of the drivin and shearing motor may occur while the machine carriage is being returned to position for a subsequent-line of typing. The motor actuation may therefore be controlled through the usual carriage return key of an automatically returned carriage, as indicated in Figure 9.

Thus, means are provided to ticket individual lines of an invoice and such means may be disposed at any position relatively to the typing carriage; it further, may feed a ticket strip at any angle, even at right angles, to the line of travel of invoice blanks. As the carriage reaches a predetermined position, it automatically causes a ticket strip to be advanced to suitable position for a subsequent ticket and thereupon may automatically and in correlation with the various lengths of tickets for which the machine may have been adjusted cause individual tickets to be sheared from the supply strip.

The description and drawings in this case refer to a machine in which the invoice strip 2 travels from side to side of the machine, but this description is intended merely to be illustrative of embodiments of this invention of other specific nature within the scope of the appended claims.

While in accordance with the patent statutes, I have described this invention in the embodiment now preferred, it will now be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications thereof may be made without departure from the scope of .the invention as expressed in the -appended claims.

What I claim is:

1. An attachment for typing machines comprising, a roller to draw a strip of paper across the typing space of the machine, driving means to rotate said roller, and means to control the rotation of said roller comprising, a clutch between the roller and the driving means, magnetically operated means to close the clutch, means to hold the clutch closed, means adapted to be actuated by the typing machine to energize said magnetically operated means and camming means driven by said driving means to release the clutch.

2. An attachment for a typing machine having a movable carriage comprising, a roller to draw a strip of paper across the typing space of the machine, driving means to rotate said roller, and means to control the rotation of said roller comprising, a clutch between said roller and the driving means, an electromagnet, a link operably connected to said magnet to control the clutch, means adapted to be actuated by the movable carriage of the typing machine to energize said magnet to close the clutch, a latch to engage said link to hold the clutch in closed position and camming means driven by said driving means in synchronism with said roller to release the latch and permit the clutch to disengage.

3. An attachment for typing machines com prising, a roller to draw a strip of paper across the typing space of the machine, driving means to rotate said roller, and means to control the rotation of said roller comprising, .a clutch between said roller and said driving means, magnetically operated means to close the clutch,

means adapted to be actuated by the typing machine to energize said magnetically operated means, a latch to hold the clutch in closed posi-,

.and a yielding stop to prevent overrunning of the roller.

4. An attachment for a typing machine comprising a roller to draw a strip of paper across the typing space of the machine, driving means for said roller, and means to control the rotation of saidrolier comprising, a clutch between said roller and the driving means, an electromagnet, a link operably connected to said magnet to control the clutch, means adapted to be .actuated by the typing machine to energize said magnet to close the clutch, a latch to engage said link to hold the clutch in closed position, camming means driven by said driving means in synchronism with the rotation of the roller to release the latch and allow disengagement of the clutch, and a pivoted stop yieldingly held in the path of the cammingmeans to engage the camming means and prevent overrunning oi. the roller when the clutch is disengaged.

5. An attachment for a typing machine having means to advance a sheet of paper through the machine comprising, a roller to drawa strip of paper across the typing space of the machine independently of said sheet, a shear blade to sever portions from said strip, driving means for said roller and said shear blade, and means to control the rotation of said roller and operation of said shear blade comprising, a clutch, means adapted to be actuated by the typing machine to cause the clutch to engage, means to hold the clutch engaged and-'=-means"actuated by the rotation of the roller to release said holding means and allow disengagement of the. clutch.

6. An attachment for a typing machine comprising, a roller to draw a strip of paper across the typing space of the machine, driving means to rotate said roller, a shear blade normally urged to shearing position, and means to control said shear blade comprising, a cam to move the shear blade to open position and camming means driven by said driving means in synchronism with said roller to release the shear blade from the cam.

"ILAn attachment for typing machines comprising, a roller to draw a strip of paper across the typing space of the machine, driving means to rotate said roller, a pivoted shear blade normally urged to shearing position, and means to control said shear blade comprising a cam follower fixed to the shear blade, a cam rotated by said driving means to move the shear blade to open position, and camming means driven by said driving means in synchronism with said roller to release the cam follower from the cam to permit the shear blade to move to shearing position. i

' 8. An attachment for a typing machine comprising, a roller to feed a strip of paper through the machine, a shear blade to cut sections from the strip normally urged to shearing position, driving means to rotate said roller and move said shear blade to open position, and means to control the rotation 01' said roller and the operation of said shear blade comprising, aclutch, magnetically operated means to close said clutch,

a latch to hold said clutch in closed position,

camming means to release said latch and permit the clutch to disengage, and means operable by said camming means to release the shear blade to cut the strip.

9. An attachment for typing machines com-- prising, a roller to draw a strip of paper across the typing space of the .machine, driving means to rotate said roller, means to control the rotation of said roller comprising, a clutch between said roller and said driving means, magnetically operated means to close the clutch, means adapted to be operated by the typing machine 5 to energize said magnetically operated means, a latch to hold the clutch in closed position and camming means driven by said driving means in synchronism with the roller; 2. pivoted shear blade normally urged to shearing position and M means to control said shear blade comprising, a

cam follower fixed to the shear blade, a cam rotated by said driving means to move the shear blade to open position, and means operable by said camming means to release the cam follower 15 from the cam.

10. An attachment for a typing machine having means to advance a sheet of paper through the machine comprising, a roller to draw a strip of paper across the typing space of the machine independently of the said sheet, driving means for said roller, a reel driven by the roller to receive the strip of paper advanced by the roller,

and means to control the rotation of said roller and said reel comprising, a clutch between said roller and said driving to be actuated by the typing machine to cause the clutch to engage. and means actuated by rotation of the roller to permit the clutch to disengage.

CARL E. WEBER.

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